Israel launches major strike on Lebanese guerrilla bases
Israeli planes gunboats and artillery attacked guerrilla bases south of Rashidiyeh and near Tyre in Lebanon in retaliation for a Jerusalem bombing that killed 14. Beirut reported 13 dead and 37 wounded, including a woman and two children, with Israel claiming all forces returned safely as border clashes intensified.
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Israel
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Sinai
Simcha Dinitz
Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
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Holy City
King David Hotel
Mira Berger
Barghouliyeh
Dahr Maaroud
Bourgouliyeh
Tel Aviv
Fourth time a funl time at Shaftsbury Farmers Market crafts day
Fourth season opening of the Shaftsbury Farmers Market offered garden delights and crafts. Even early in the growing season plenty of produce and handmade items drew shoppers. The Park-McCullough Mansion hosted the fourth annual crafts demonstration day with local craftspeople answering questions as visitors watched woodcarver Elfriede Abbe work.
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Elfriede Abbe
Ford seeks national highway plan with tax sharing
President Ford urged Congress to adopt a national highway program that would distribute 25 percent of the federal gasoline tax, about 1 billion dollars a year, to states. The proposal would reward states that raise their own gas tax by at least 1 cent, while shifting funds toward finishing the 42,500 mile interstate system and granting more local freedom in spending federal aid.
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Montpelier
UPI
Madelyn Davidson
Advocacy Council
Bernard Henault
Department
Jamaica
Council
Legal Aid
Employment Security Department
Thomas Salmon
Salmon
Washington
White House
Treasury
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State Treasuries
Race track groom dies after a fall in New York
Leon E. Conquest a 47 year old groom at Green Mountain race track in Pownal fell from the back of a moving pickup truck at about 5 p.m. Saturday at the track. He died from head injuries at Albany Medical Center after being transported from Putnam Memorial Hospital. Funeral services are planned in Hoosick Falls on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Millertown Cemetery Johnsonville. Memorials may go to Hoosick Rescue Squad.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Leon E. Conquest
North Hoosick
Green Mountain
Pownal
Albany, N.Y. Medical Center
Conquest
Randall K. Martin
Shaftsbury
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Albany Hospital
Johnsonville
Charles E
Hazel (Hunt) Conquest
Martin
Verne
Escondido
Calif
Yvette Paulin
Town of
Arlington Fourth Of July Parade Adds Colorful Era Props
Women in period costumes demonstrate old time gear including a spinning wheel butter churn wash tub and manned equipment during Arlington Fridays July Fourth celebration, offering a vivid glimpse of early community life and festivity.
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Arlington
Grain sale scheme unearthed in New Orleans port
Witnesses describe a weighing device rig to fraudulently raise grain export values. A vice president at Cook Industries was suspended as a broad probe into grain weighing and grading corruption expands from New Orleans to Houston. Fifteen individuals indicted locally, with major firms named including Bunge Corporation and Mississippi River Grain Elevator.
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Melvin L. Hibbets
Cook Industries, Inc
United States
Houston
Bunge Corporation
Mississippi River Grain Elevator, Inc
Inside Local Review Opens at Williamstown Page 3
The Inside Local section previews opening production at Williamstown with a concise review. It notes Shannon of The Times tackling the George Wallace question on Page 4 and comments on local columns and public notices across pages 4 to 7.
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George Wallace
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C. S. Monitor
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Arlington
Dorset
Art Wall
Yankees Halt
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